unknown yet. and the greatest mystery of amy neiman's life. >> kind of cool. >> reporter: tom johnson, fox news. >> kind of cool. >> like she said to be able it find a message in the bottle. >> it is fascinating. i wonder what it is all about. >> i know. protection, goddess of the sea. fascinating stuff. we still have mendte ahead. weather, traffic and all your top stories. >> fox 5 morning news continues right now. -- we still have plenty ahead. straight up 5:00 on this wednesday. temperatures in the immediate area here in the 70s. you will feel athe humidity out there this morning. let's see if that will stick around, as tucker would say, for the rest of the morning. -- you will feel a little humidity out there this morning. i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm wisdom martin. we want to el you about a great event happening today with dr. oz. he will be at the howard university college of medicine giving free physicals to 1,000 people. >> we do want to point out all

of today's participants are preregistered. the physicals will be given only to those already signed up. please do not come forward to howard for you are not selected a few weeks ago. we'll check in with holly morris in our 6:00 hour. she will be out there. >> that is a great event. >> you're taking my material. >> you love to say that. you always think it is so clever every time you do. >> early. i'm hoping people aren't quite awake yet. i try to save my real good stuff for later in the morning. it is hot and humid across the region. temperatures right now in the upper 70s and even a few spots that touch 80 degrees this morni. we could see afew showers move through here during the next few hours. this is a awake cold front off to the north and west -- that

is a weak cold front off to the north and west. the first stage will arrive today and we'll get rid of the humidity and some of the remnants of isaac will start to move on out. 79 in washington. much of the eastern seaboard basking in the 70s at this hour. boston, 74. new york, 76. no real reloaf here. you got to get out to the north and west. rather warm today with scattered showers and storms back in the forecast. humid as well. particularly early. highs in the mid- to upper 80s. >> thank you. julie wright is working hard this morning out there. tell us what is going on on the roads. >> better news if you are traveling the inner loop of the beltway approaching braddock road, wisdom. that is where we had the overnight construction that was still in play as you travel the inner loop from springfield headed up towards braddock. it looks like they have cleared the lanes now so all the cones and barrels if you will have been pushed over to the shoulder. lanes are open inner loop of

the beltway leaving spring field continuing up towards tysons. you we'll find north of town lanes are open, beltway running smoothly around towards 270. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. -timetraffic. former president bill clinton is among the headline speakers at day two of the democratic national convention tonight. last night, san antonio mayor julian castro gave the keynote address. he taunted mitt romney for his shifting on positions like abortion, gay marriage and his own push for universal health care as governor of massachusetts. now, the prime time slot went to first lady michelle obama. she reminded the american people of her husband's values and vision. >> barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. he didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically. no, that is not how he was

raised. he cared that it was the right thing to do. >> president obama watched the first lady's speech in the treaty room of the white house with daughter sasha and malia. coming up, we'll go to charlotte for a live report. maryland governor martin o'malley also addressed crowd at the democratic national convention last night. mark plotkin is also in charlotte. he and on fox 5 news at 10:00 last night saying o'malley will play an important role in the 2016 presidentialual cain. >> just a few moments ago, martin o'malley walked off the stage behind you. a lot of people are speculating he may be a candidate himself in four years. >> may be? he will be a candidate. he doesn't mind going after mitt romney as head of the

democratic governors association. when i asked ike leggett where is governor o'malley, he pointed to all the news studios, every one of them. that is where he is. he is doing his audition. this is his new haven for broadway. we continue to follow a developing story you saw first here on fox 5. a prominent defense attorney says he was awalled after seeing video that seems to contradict the storive a prince george's county police officer who claim his gun went off during a strug wail teenager. -- story of a prince george's county police officer. officer corporal donald taylor said 19-year-old ryan do remember was aggressively are resisting arrest and the gun want off during the struggle.

the video shows taylor approaching dorm. >> i hope if he lied on this young man that he never wears the badge of a police officer in the county or anywhere in the united states or elsewhere. >> dorm is hit in the head when the flash of the gun goes off. he spent nearly four months in jail as a result of the incident. taylor was indicted last month for allegedly lying about what happened. another big story this morning could affect anyone who has an apple device such as an iphone or ipad. a hacker group says it stole personal information about owners from and fbi laptop. what does this mean for you. melanie a.m. wick has the details. >> that's right. we are getting more developments as the days go on fining out exactly where this information came from, who is responsible for it. apple itself has not commented on it. the group that says it did the hacking calls itself antisec or antisecurity and they say their mission is to steal and leak

classified government information. we want to show you where this information first came out. they are loosely affiliated with the group anonymous and so they tweeted this out a couple of days ago and it just got bigger after that saying they had basically stolen all of these apple i. d. numbers from and fbi laptop. and here is the information here. they say they posted one million apple i. d. s and the use are names connected to antisec says the entire file they got contained use are names, zip codes, cell phone numbers and addresses. but it shows here just the device name and number. it says it got the file by hacking into an fbi agent. antisec saws the entire file is actually 12 million apple identification numbers and names. the group claims the fbi is using the apple device for a

tracking people project. they say the fbi using this information to spy on people. if it were linked with information such as names or addresses, the numbers could be use in a way to get at more sensitive data. experts say just knowing the i. d. number itself doesn't enable the fbi to track or eavesdrop on people. now, the fbi did respond. i want to show you their response on twitter saying first that the statement on reports with personal information was hacked. we never had the information in question. bottom line, totally false. that is the response from the f.b.i. but if it is false, it does bring up the question about where the information did come from. and that is what people are trying to get at today. again, apple not responding yet to this breach of information. back to you. back to you. an election day victory rally interrupted by gunfire. that is next. >> plus a call to world leaders to end the crisis in syria.

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up next will our snow shovels and snow boots get a big workout this winter. >> we'll tell you what one almanac is forecasting. tucker, we always love this time of year. >> can't wait to find out what it has to say. we're warm and humid. it doesn't like like that outside at this hour and it won't any time soon. julie wright has a look at your traffic right after the break. 

i'm shivering. i almost just can't even read that just looking that the awful, awful thing. >> you can get through it. >> we could be in for i abrutal winter this year. the nation's second oldest almanac is forecasting heavy snowstorms for the mid-atlantic region. the 013 almanac predict the first snowfall could arrive as early as november 28th. >> just in time for thanksgiving. >> it includes the possibility for snow through the end of march. oh, no! >> it won't be that bad. >> it says the conditions are based on the size of a developing el nino in the pacific ocean. >> the old el nino. there are some indications it will be -- i'm trying to very careful about what i say. >> you don't want to freak me out. >> a more wintry winter than we had last year. no indication we're going to have big problems. last year, we had the first snow in october. >> then the winter was mild, right? >> we had snow in october and that was pretty much it.

>> it was like there you go, done for the year. >> it was the best winter i've had since i've been here. >> you must be from the south. >> way south of here. >> some of us like a little winter weather. >> a little. just a little. >> thankfully, julie's mic is turned off right now. she can't tell us what she thinks. >> she will. >> 80 in annapolis. these are some of the warmest temperatures we've had in several week at 5:00 in the morning. 77 in fredericksburg. going to be another warm day. temperature will be in the upper 80s later this afternoon. still going to be very humid, at least the first half of the day. as we get into the afternoon, there may be a little bit of try air that tries to work in from the north and west.

we're quiet right now. a couple sprinkles north of baltimore. a few showers in western maryland. this is associate wade weak cold front. so weak, it won't really make it through the area. behind this front, as it pushes south and ea a little later this afternoon, there is some slightly drier air. you may notice the humidity waning just a little bit later on today. a series of cold frontss. we will gradually improve things around here over the next couple of days. this is sort of the first hit it was later this afternoon. so things will get better around here, gradually dry out and eventually cool down as we get into the weekend. here is your futurecast. put it in motion for you. you can see the cold front come through during the morning hours. here we are at 9:00 a.m. with a few showers around. be ready for a couple of showers particularly the first half of the day. later this afternoon, we could fire up a thunderstorm. north and west, i think you'll get enough of that drier air

that you should generally be on the dry side later today. 87 today. palestinian leader yasser arafat sunny skies. scattered showers and storms back in the forecast. -- later, sunny skies. let's toss to julie and get the latest on your traffic. >> after what i heard you just say, i am not talking to you. wisdom, i'm on the phone right now. i'm reserving seats for miami the first of november. i don't put me down. i'm feeling you on this.

let's go. >> we'll work. we'll just report from miami. i don't even want to think about that. you are below speed leaving university boulevard or i should say you are at speed leaving university boulevard headed over towards 270. southbound 9 # and 295, the lanes are open, no problems reported on 50 between annapolis and the 50. -- southbound 95 and 295, the lanes are open, no problems reported on 50 between annapolis and 50. the lanes are open between annandale and merrifield. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. a fallen navy seal from anne arundel county will be laid to rest at arlington national cemetery today. patrick feck was killed in afghanistan august 16th when his helicopter crashed during a fire fight with insurgents. monday, his body returned home to his hometown of edge water. -- patrick feeks was killed in afghanistan august 16th.

in the race for the white house, there is a possible threat to the romney camp in virginia. former congressman virgil gude, jr. has qualified for the presidential ballot. he spent 12 years in congress and 24 years in the state senate. he is running as the constitution party's no, ma'am know but also has report from the independent green party. state republican party is challenging his eligibility. gop presidential nominee mitt romney is not getting the response he had hoped from the republican convention. 46% of people now support romney and 47% are in favor of president obama. romney is the first republican since 1964 to receive no post- convention bump in this poll. new details coming up about the investigation into mayor gray's 2010 campaign. >> up next, details of what unfolded during the latest

court hearing for one man who worked for the campaign. stay with us. 

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new details are emerging about the investigation of mayor gray's 2010 campaign. >> there was a hearing yesterday for thomas gore who has already plead guilty to

wrongdoing. matt ackland explains. >> reporter: minutes after what was called a status hearing, thomas gore came out of courthouse and ran past our camera. you will recall earlier this year, gore, a gray campaign worker, pleaded guilty to involvement in a scam to pay suleiman brown to verbally attack mayor adrian fenty. en the u.s. attorney's office indicated that gore continued to work with prosecutors and they needed more time continue that work. gore could be granted leniency for his cooperation. >> we're in this until it's over. >> these are twitter pictures of mayor gray at the democratic national convention in north carolina.

we asked leonard steinhorn for the investigation will prompt some high level democrats at the dnc to avoid the mayor in charlotte. >> all elected officials shouldn't be ashamed to be talking with the mayor of one of the most important cities in the world. but the fact that he is under investigation, people do not want to be in that photo op because they know how it could be used, abused and taken out of context. >> reporter: back to thomas gore for a moment. a judge today set another status hearing for december. meanwhile, it is important to point out that mayor gray has said, since the beginning of this investigation that he has known of no wrongdoing inside his campaign. in the district, matt ackland, fox 5 news. >> thank you. uncovered in the aftermath of isaac. a mysterious ship that may have dated back to the civil war. we'll show it to you in about 15 minutes. >> coming up next, we're checking all your top stories plus weather and traffic. stay with us.

welcome back. wednesday, september 5th. normally, that is hump day as we look live at the jefferson memorial. today is a special day. tucker barnes' birthday. we'll call today tucker barnes day just for today. >> we'll check in with him in a bit. we wanted to tell you first about a great event happening today, not just tucker's

birthday. it is with dr. oz. he will be at the howard university climb of medicine giving physicals to 1,000 people. >> all of today's participants are preregistered so the physicals will be given only to those who have already signed up. beginning in our 6:00 hour, we'll be live at howard all morning long. >> it will be great. if you haven't signed up, don't go down. it is too late. >> we'll be here so you can see what happens. >> we have to watch it here. >> thank you for the birthday witch wishes. >> he has to remind he every half hour. what's today? tucker's birthday. >> i'm not the only one enjoying a birthday today. there are a lot of people. a lot of people. trying to think of all the famous people born on my

birthday. bob newhart, billy kilmer. we still have a few openings. i don't know who else. we have a few showers off to the north and west moving in. that is slight i drier air behind it. things will gradually improve a little bit today. still going be for a warm day today. still going to be humid to start your morning. later this afternoon, might be a little bit more comfortable and just a touch cooler tonight. we'll do things gradually over the next couple of days. it is very unpleasant. 79degrees. you will step out and say where am i. 80 in annapolis. 77 in leonardtown. doesn't feel like september in washington. we are off to a warm start. high temperatures today. upper 80s. a few of us will touch 90 degrees. 86 in leonardtown. 88 out at dulles. it will be hot for this time of year. average daytime high in the low 80s across the region. >> i thought you said things were going to get better towards the end of the week. >> well, we have to lose the humidity and then we'll decrease the temperatures just

a bit. >> i'm like this isn't what i signed up for. >> it's a work in progress. >> society low 1r0, that is tucker's age or the temperatures? >> oh, julie. >> happy birthday, tucker barnes. >> '80s were a great time. >> you remember the '80s. >> that's where i learnedto dance. >> on the roads, southbound 270, the lanes are open. no problems reported out of germantown. you will find yourself at speed headed out towards 118. no problems out through gaithersburg and rockville. still an easy trip on the top stretch of the beltway between college park and bethesda. eastbound 66, we received word of a stalled car near the car rest area. not fining it in the camera but watch out as you travel east headed in towards centreville. no trouble spots to report up onto 395. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. imetraffic.

new this morning, police are asking for your help in the search for a missing man. take a look at the picture on your screen. 71-year-old david short of alexandria has been missing since about 9:00 yesterday when he was reportedly going to virginia hospital center in arlington. short is believed to be driving a twoix silver green honda crx with virginia tags kbk6001. he may be in the gainesville area of prince william county looking for a relative. a virginia woman charged with killing a mother and son in 2010 is pleading guilty. natalia wilson will serve two consecutive life terms without parole for stabbing a woman and her 8-year-old son. wilson had been married to the boy's father. court documents show wilson confessed to the murders saying she was jealous of her husband's relationship with his ex-wife. ex-wife.

another big story we are following this morning. iphones an ipads under attack. a hacker group claims that it stole personal information about apple device owners from and fbi laptop. melanie alnwick joins us live with more now. >> the group calls itself antisec or antisecurity and its goal basically it to steal and leak any classified government information. so here is what happens them say they got one million apple i. d. 's and user names connected to them and posted them on this web site. you can take a look right here at all the of the information available. antisec says the entire file contained user names, zip codes, cell phone numbers and addressed but it chose just for post the device name and number. it got the file of all these apple i. d. s by hacking in the laptop of and fbi agent connected to a nonprofit group

of experts that share information on cyberthreats. we are talking about iphones ipads and even ipods. the whole file is said to be actually 12 million identification numbers and names. the group claims the fbi is using the apple device information for a tracking people project. if linked with other information, such as names or addresses, the numbers could be uses as a way to get to more sensitive data. now, the fbi is disputing the claim. we'll show you the fbi's response to that right here t -- it came here first in a twitter post. itter post. the fbi is saying this is totally false. it does bring up the question of who is telling the truth here. if it didn't come from the fbi, where did the information come

from? because several sources have taken the information from that antisec web opinion and they have been able to verify and actually contact people who have those devices. so certainly, it brings up that question of who got this information, why is it out there and how might it be able to be used in perhaps a way that we wouldn't be comfortable with. back to you. >> thank you very much. former president bill clinton is along the headline speaks are for -- speakers for day two of the democratic national convention. nicole collin is live in charlotte with the highlight from the first day. >> reporter: the first lady was very well received on a night that featured many women, latinos and young people. >> being president doesn't change who you are. no, it reveals who you are.

>> reporter: selling her husband's vision. >> for barack, success isn't about how much money you make. it is about the difference you make in people's lives. >> reporter: philadelphia michelle obama lovingly praised president obama and characterized him as the man the country can trust to revive the economy. >> he reminds me that we are playing a long game here and that change is hard. >> reporter: she never mentioned republican nominee mitt romney, instead leaving that to the politicians. >> mitt romney quite simply doesn't get it. >> reporter: making history with the first latino deliver a keynote address at a democratic convection, san antonio mayor julian castro defended the president's economic record asking vote fors more time. >> we've seen 4.5 million new jobs. he knows better than anyone that there is more hard work to

do but we are making progress. -- asking voters for more time. >> my favorite job was having a boss who gave the order to kill bin laden and so thank you, invisible man in the chair. >> what can we exch from bill clinton tonight in his speech? >> we don't really know. there is a lot of speculation about that. we'll hear about the economy i'm sure but up like the other convention speakers, he has not submits his remarks for review so still a lot of questions about that. we'll be waiting to see what he has to say tonight. >> thank you for that report. h the slow recovery from hurricane isaac continues. >> amid the flooding cleanup and effort to get the power back o a maritime mystery is once again revealed. what the storm uncovered off the shores of alabama. we'll be back in a moment.

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others are still without power. neighboring mississippi suffering from similar damage. winds from hurricane isaac have unearthed more of a mysterious ship structure located along the alabama coast. portions of that ship were first spotted on gulf shores of alabama in 2008 after hurricane ike blew through. closer examination reveals it was likely it was built in the early part of the 20th century. historians believe it was carrying a load of timber and ran aground in 1930. the mystery is kind of being involved. >> we have he had the story about the bottle. >> message in the bottle. >> now, we have this mystery about the old ship. >> and now, we round it out with sports. football fans are loving this week. college ball kicked off and the nfl season gets under way. >> tucker barnes very happy about that. still ahead this hour, the smart phone app developed here in our area that can keep you

in the game. >> first, we have a few more days to handle the humidity. tucker and julie are back next with your wednesday weather and traffic. time now is 5:42. we'll be right back. [ fingers tapping ] [ rain pattering ] [ heels clicking ] [ female announcer ] yoplait light tastes great now... ♪

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you know, we've got np a bunch of new back to school pith with the start of classes in much of northern virginia yesterday. check this one out. what does the sign say? >> my first day of kindergarten. >> my first day of kindergarten. >> that is how you get to tv right this. >> this is steven who started at bellevue elementary school in alexandria. that is a cute thing. >> it has a date. that is the last line. >> i see people do that. you mark that time. a special time. >> yeah. >> you guys wished me a happy birthday. crystal wrote in and said it was her birthday too. >> happy birthday, crystal. >> 79 in washington. warm and humid start to your day. 08 in annapolis. dew point temperature in the low 70s and so it is just very, very uncomfortable as we have this very soggy air mass in

place. 759 current temperature out at manassas adullt . it will an warm one with highs in the mid- to upper80s. we' feel it later this afternoon. this is actually a very weak cold front. it has not got a lot with it. you can see a not a lot of moisture. it does have a little bit of drier air in its wake. as this passes through, you can see it over the next couple of hours. we could fire up a few showers across the region. i think we'll see at least partly to mostly sunny skies. the air will be drier. it will still be on the warm side. at least we'll start to squeeze some of the humidity out of here. a few more cold fronts out here. one north and west of chicago. things will get better around here over the next couple of days. here is your forecast for today. 87, partly sunny skies. a few scattered showers or thunderstorms. a few showers this morning. could be a thunderstorm this afternoon. much of your day will be dry and partly sunny.

here is your fox 5 accu-weather seven-day forecast. 87 this afternoon. and then a hot thursday and friday with highs back in the 90s. that is about 10 degrees above normal. we do cool it down in time for the weekend. check out monday and tuesday's daytime highs. it will feel like september around here with highs in the mid-70s. overnight lows in the upper 50s and near 60 here in town. get ready for a cooldown early next week. let's get the latest on traffic with julie wright. >> lanes are open traveling between annandale and merrifield. you will find lanes are open other side of town. 66 eastbound, we have reports of a stalled car past the rest area tying up the right lane. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. -timetraffic. >> up next, a smart phone app developed right here in our area that can help keep sports fans in the game.

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face the blue jays. mark reynolds breaks a scoreless inning with his 17th home run of the year. baltimore would pour it on. they win 12-0. despite a little rain. the os are tied for first place with the yankees. no manny machado in the highlights. i'm told he had three hits. whether you are in the nfl or college games, there is a new way to experience your favorite match-u a group of guys developed a new iphone app here in our area. >> it launched over the weekendant the ceo, a 17-year military veteran, says it is a great way to connect with your friends or family deployed overseas. lauren demarco has more. >> reporter: football season has arrived. i never thought that you would hear that music and then comes me. but this year, there is

something new ache mobile app create here in our area. it is called yellow flag and it vote vied a little tailgate in your pocket, as wave been calling it here. joining me are the creators, josh grand gabe peyton and also jason lafollette. you guys came up with this concept. it is an app where it is sort of a social network where can you connect with your friends and trash talk and it has also got score updates. tell me a little bit, first of all, about how it started, why you decided to make an app like this. >> first and foremost, we are football fans. so-- >> clearly. >> and so i went to auburn undergrad. my brother a huge lsu fan. my family is from louisiana originally. my brother and a and a bunch. our friends were trying to communicate. we were using text messaging at the time and we thought we

could create a better product. >> it is the fastest way you can communicate during live football games with your friends. >> and jason, talk to me about the development of it. when you log on, you need to have a facebook account, right? >> so we leveraged the social grasp that you've already create in facebook to pull in your friends in the ache. >> for those of you who may not want our parents to read the trash talking that wear doing, can you decide whether you want it it post on your facebook page or not and you can keep it within yellow flag. >> we value our user's privacy. when the app starts up, it asks you for different levels of permission to post to facebook. you can turn it off and nothing will go back to facebook and you can still use your app and pull in your friends. >> josh, you were wounded in iraq and you have a goal here to employ and hire wounded

warriors and veterans that work on the app with you? >> yeah. last year, i was wounded in iraq and ended up in walter reed and have been part of the wounded transition unit, the warrior transition unit since then. i just think that wound ped warriors and just soldiers in general have an affinity for sports. if you can't be a part of it the way that you used to before your injuries, maybe being a part of yellow flag will give them one way that they can be interacting with sports. as we gain popularity, we want to get to the point where we can hire veterans and wounded warriors to be a part of our company and help us succeed. >> great. really great to meet you guys. love what you're doing and i love the app. it is very cool to look at and keeping you updated with the scores an information on the players along with all the of the fun. so thank you so much for coming

in. best of luck to you. hope effect work out. >> thank you. >> going to send it back to you guys at the desk. apts free app and we'll have more information on that on myfoxdc.com. back to you. >> wisdom heard two key words, free and sports and he is all about it. >> i'm all good. tonight being the yellow flag crew will be out at the crystal city ports pub for the nfl football game. >> there is a yellow flag campus under way where the schools can win scholarship money. all of this is on myfoxdc.com. we are live at howard university to hell you more about why dr. oz is in town. that is ahead at 6:00. time for today's facebook fan of the day. today, we say hello to pamela jenkins. >> pamela says she has been a fan since moving to the d.c. area with the u.s. army. >> thank you for your service.

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